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17 October 2007

Life Science Connections - Human Body Adventure

by knann (via)
Engaging site designed by a middle school teacher for grade 7 life science, but content can be used for 5th grade unit because of the way the information is presented in bulleted format with graphics. If students have trouble using the naviagation menu, use the site map:http://vilenski.org/science/humanbody/hb_html/map.html

U-505 | On-Line Activities

by knann
At the height of World War II, the U.S. Navy captured a German U-boat submarine prowling off the waters of Africa. The American efforts to capture the U-505, and the German struggle to prevail instead, illuminate the human experience of duty, courage, and survival during wartime. This site features two games and an interactive timeline about that fateful day: * Find the U-505: As an American sailor, use cutting-edge (for 1944) technologies to track down the U-boat. * Command the U-505: As skipper of the U-505, use your wits to attack the Americans and evade capture. * Capture! An interactive timeline featuring oral histories by the men who where there.

My Pop Studio

by knann, 1 comment
Ready to pop behind-the-scenes of the television you watch, magazines you read, music you listen to and websites you visit? Our "studios" let you take the reins. Create. Comment. Control. Explore your media, your way! For Teachers: What is My Pop Studio? My Pop Studio is a creative play experience that strengthens critical thinking skills about television, music, magazines and online media directed at girls. Users select from four behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn more about mass media: * In the Magazine Studio, users compose a magazine layout featuring themselves as celebrities. They write an advice column, explore the power of digital retouching, and reflect on the role of body image in today's culture. * In the TV Studio, users edit a TV show where the story keeps changing but the images remain the same. They examine their TV viewing choices, comment on teen celebrities, and compare their daily screen time with others. * In the Music Studio, users create a pop star and compose her image and song. They explore the power of music in selling a product and search for truth in media gossip. The comment on the values messages in popular music. * In the Digital Studio, users test their multi-tasking abilities. They share their experiences with the challenges of digital life online. They consider the "what if's" of social networking sites and reflect on the power of media and technology in their social relationships. My Pop Studio strengthens media literacy skills, promotes positive youth development, and increases knowledge about health issues. Highly interactive creative play activities are used to create an online community that guides users through the process of deconstructing, analyzing and creating media. Video segments, flash animation, media deconstruction games and quizzes, and moderated blogs make the website lively, fun and educational. Who Created this Site? My Pop Studio was created by a team of researchers and media professionals at the Media Education Lab, located at Temple University's School of Communication and Theater in the Department of Broadcast Telecommunication and Mass Media

ReadingMatrix.com

by knann
Search Directory geared specifically to reading, Analyzing Text (12) new Audio and Text (18) Proofreading (4) Reading Comprehension Advanced (10) Reading Comprehension Beginner (14) Reading Comprehension Intermediate (19) Short Stories (11) Vocabulary (51)

ASTRONOMICAL DISTANCES

by knann
You are in a spaceship leaving Earth to explore the Universe! How fast do you want to travel? Enter the rate of travel and see how long it will take to visit different places!

15 October 2007

Planet 10

by knann (via)
Fascinating virtual solar system explorer and world builder. Teaching resources available at the bottom of this page: http://www.solarsystem.org.uk/planet10/

14 October 2007

Astronomy For Kids

by knann (via)
Great site for kids researching the solar system, planets, and more. Easy to read and understand text. Looks like a teacher creation.

StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers

by knann (via)
Take the tour using Level 1 or Level 2 information. Teacher guide available.

CosmicQuest @ The Children's Museum of Indianapolis

by knann
Our solar system is our neighborhood in space. The Sun is the center of this neighborhood, which includes at least nine planets plus hundreds of moons and thousands of asteriods.

Exploring Our Solar System

by knann (via)
webquest for grades 4-5 See entire unit here:http://www.asdk12.org/depts/itech/teachers/curriculum/

Space Sense for Kids

by knann
Every question you answer correctly will boost your rocket a little further toward its destination--leaving the Earth's atmosphere. Click the button that you think holds the correct answer, or click a 'Life Line' button for helpful clues. 'Open a Link' will take you to a web page that has information about the question, and 'What have others answered?' will show you the percentage of people that have previously chosen each answer.

Eight Planets and a Dwarf Soduko

by knann
Fill in all the empty cells by dragging and dropping the planets Every row,column,and 3x3 box with orange borders should contain all nine planets. No planet should appear more than once in a row, column, or box.

Sky aboveStowe VT on Sun 2007 Oct 14 10:42

by knann
Use these numbers for the observing site Lat 44°47'17" Long 73°9'11"

Solar System Live

by knann
Use these numbers for the observing site Lat 44°47'17" Long 73°9'11"

The Maine Solar System Model

by knann
Click on the name of a planet to see how it appears from US Route 1 as you travel between Presque Isle and Houlton. Scale 1:93,000,000 At forty miles (64.4 km) from Pluto to Sun, the largest complete three-dimensional scale model of the Solar System in the World.

Measuring the Solar System Spreadsheet

by knann
Use this spreadsheet to develop different scale models of the solar system

13 October 2007

The Space Place :: From Computer Code to Space Wave and Back Again

by knann
Codes and Decodes: Or, How to Yell Across a Solar System Explains how NASA sends and recives data into space. Narrated and animated. Great for differentiation

The Solar System Trading Cards

by knann & 1 other
Learn about the solar system with this trading card game

CLEO - Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online

by knann
Amazing set of resources from Great Britain for k-12

ARKive - Creating a lasting audio-visual record of life on Earth.

by knann & 7 others (via)
ARKive (www.arkive.org) is the world's centralised library of films and photographs of the world's endangered species - freely accessible to all online for private research and internal educational purposes. Hailed as the digital Noah's Ark, it has won numerous conservation, education and communication awards since its launch by Sir David Attenborough in 2003, and has now profiled over 2,500 of the world's endangered species, using over 3,000 movie clips and 18,000 photos as well as a full research page on each animal - all freely available for internal educational use at www.arkive.org. Register for free and create a scrapbook that can be shared with students

ARKive Education - Resources

by knann
ARKive Education is a free-to-use, multi-media resource bank for teachers and other educators. Making use of the stunning imagery available at the award-winning ARKive website www.arkive.org, ARKive Education provides downloadable, ready to use modules on a wide range of curriculum topics, suitable for geography, biology, environmental education and citizenship lessons.

07 October 2007

ResizR - Easy online image resize

by knann & 9 others
Resize images on the web or from your computer.

ajaxWrite - AJAX for Everyone

by knann & 12 others (via)
Create a word processing document on the web that you open,edit,print,and save. Great if you do not have MS Word at home